Description
This Little Gem Pea Salad is a fresh, crunchy, and vibrant side dish made with tender peas, crisp lettuce, and a zesty lemon vinaigrette.
Ingredients
Scale
Little Gem Pea Salad:
- 2 small heads (about 8 ounces or 8 cups total) Little Gem lettuce, separated into small leaves
- 1 cup vegetable sprouts (i.e., radish, pea, alfalfa, sunflower, kohlrabi)*
- ½ cup fresh chopped dill
- 1 cup fresh (or frozen, thawed) shelled sweet peas
- 1 cup fresh sprouted red lentils** (may substitute with cooked, cooled red lentils)
Easy Lemon Vinaigrette:
- 1/2 lemon, juice and zest
- 1 ½ tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Pinch salt
- Pinch black pepper
Instructions
- Make salad by placing lettuce leaves, vegetable sprouts, dill, peas, and sprouted red lentils in a 3 quart salad bowl and tossing gently.
- Make lemon vinaigrette by whisking together lemon juice and zest, salt, and black pepper in a small dish.
- In a small dish, mix together lemon juice and zest, salt and black pepper as desired, and whisk together until mixed.
- Drizzle over salad and toss.
- Serve immediately.
- Makes 8 servings (about 1 1/3 cups each).
Notes
*Find a variety of vegetable sprouts at your farmers market, supermarket, or make them yourself.
**Find fresh sprouted red lentils at natural food stores, farmers markets, or sprout them yourself following my guide here.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Salad
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 70
- Sugar: 2 g
- Sodium: 7 mg
- Fat: 3 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 8 g
- Fiber: 3 g
- Protein: 4 g
